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ToolsWagstaff, Ben A., Pratscher, Jennifer, Rivera, Peter Paolo L., Hems, Edward S., Brooks, Elliot, Rejzek, Martin, Todd, Jonathan D., Murrell, J. Colin and Field, Robert A. (2021) Assessing the toxicity and mitigating the impact of harmful Prymnesium blooms in eutrophic waters of the Norfolk Broads. Environmental Science & Technology, 55 (24). 16538–16551. ISSN 0013-936X
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Abstract
Prymnesium parvum is a toxin-producing microalga, which causes harmful algal blooms globally, frequently leading to massive fish kills that have adverse ecological and economic implications for natural waterways and aquaculture alike. The dramatic effects observed on fish are thought to be due to algal polyether toxins, known as the prymnesins, but their lack of environmental detection has resulted in an uncertainty about the true ichthyotoxic agents. Using qPCR, we found elevated levels of P. parvum and its lytic virus, PpDNAV-BW1, in a fish-killing bloom on the Norfolk Broads, United Kingdom, in March 2015. We also detected, for the first time, the B-type prymnesin toxins in Broads waterway samples and gill tissue isolated from a dead fish taken from the study site. Furthermore, Norfolk Broads P. parvum isolates unambiguously produced B-type toxins in laboratory-grown cultures. A 2 year longitudinal study of the Broads study site showed P. parvum blooms to be correlated with increased temperature and that PpDNAV plays a significant role in P. parvum bloom demise. Finally, we used a field trial to show that treatment with low doses of hydrogen peroxide represents an effective strategy to mitigate blooms of P. parvum in enclosed water bodies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2021 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2023 01:18 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82699 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.est.1c04742 |
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